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Water clarity improvement after filtration

Safe water solutions

01 Nov 2010

Research across the University is helping to clean up water in regions around the world.

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Mobile communications

Mobile communications for medicine

01 Nov 2010

Cambridge researchers in collaboration with China Mobile are examining the potential of mobile phones to deliver healthcare in China and worldwide...

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What are the real costs of outsourcing abroad?

01 Sep 2008

Many UK manufacturers have transferred their production to low-cost regions to reduce costs. But a new study has discovered that these savings are...

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Huangpu River, Shanghai from a China Navigation Company steamship

Tracing the history of modern globalisation in China

01 May 2008

A Sino-British project is examining the history of China’s first age of modern globalisation, enabling China and Britain to rediscover their...

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Bamboo strips of the Suan shu shu, "Writings on Reckoning"

Making sense of the cosmos in ancient China

01 May 2008

China’s rich history of scientific and technical contributions to human culture stretches back to antiquity, as Christopher Cullen has been...

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Jade: 'Stone of Heaven'

01 May 2008

Treasured and venerated for thousands of years, jade holds a special place in the history and culture of the Chinese Empire.

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Shanghai

Globalisation today: Chinese big business

01 May 2008

This year is the 30th anniversary of China’s policy of ‘reform and open up’. What has happened to China’s strategic industries and how competitive...

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Shanghai Sky

Exchanging ideas with China

01 May 2008

Two recently funded grants will build and strengthen research collaborations with Chinese academics.

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Bamboo

Wind turbines turn to bamboo

01 Sep 2007

Bamboo – one of China’s most precious commodities – is showing great promise as the material of choice for building wind turbines.

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